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  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
  • lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • old father time — time personified
  • orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • over-confidence — too confident.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • ride for a fall — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
  • sodium fluoride — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, NaF, used chiefly in the fluoridation of water, as an insecticide, and as a rodenticide.
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
  • sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
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